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  1. Newsgroups: comp.graphics.visualization
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!sdd.hp.com!network.ucsd.edu!mvb.saic.com!unogate!stgprao
  3. From: stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini)
  4. Subject: Re: Legal Visualization
  5. Message-ID: <1992Sep2.144943.6404@unocal.com>
  6. Sender: news@unocal.com (Unocal USENET News)
  7. Organization: Unocal Corporation
  8. References: <lzjn!6k.andyrose@netcom.com> <JIM.92Sep1224203@baroque.Stanford.EDU>
  9. Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 14:49:43 GMT
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  11.  
  12. In article <JIM.92Sep1224203@baroque.Stanford.EDU> jim@baroque.Stanford.EDU (James Helman) writes:
  13. >Safe prediction: synthetic computer graphics will come to dominate
  14. >multimedia visuals and those who believe them blindly will become
  15. >mindless drones.  Fortunately, I don't believe that many will.  And
  16. >fewer will with time.  Photorealistic images and animations no longer
  17. >imply reality.
  18.  
  19. Both sides in a large litigation will probably use good visuals.
  20. It might be a problem if the defense could not afford to compete with the
  21. prosecution.
  22. Visuals were not allowed in the infamous King trial that started the 1992 LA
  23. riot, but I don't know why.  The visual choreographed the beating the Mr. King.
  24. A lot of the sorting of the evidence involved who hit who how many times
  25. and that was confusing watching the original video tape.
  26.